Avijit Roy

Avijit Roy (12 September 1972-26 February 2015) was a Bangladeshi-American critic and columnist who fought for freedom of expression, fighting against the government's imprisonment of atheist bloggers and their censorship of the press.

Biography
Avijit Roy was born on 12 September 1972, the son of physics professor Ajoy Roy. Roy studied at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, earning a master's and doctoral degree in biomedical engineering from the National University of Singapore. Roy became an IT engineer before becoming a blogger and columnist, one of the founders of the Mukto-Mona blog. Roy was one of the moderators, and he was opposed to Islamism, censorship, and the imprisonment of atheist bloggers, and he received death threats as a result of his activism. On 26 February 2015, Roy visited the Ekushey Book Fair in Dhaka with his wife, but at 8:30 PM they were pulled out of their bicycle-drawn rickshaw and were attacked by the assailants. His wife was wounded in the face and badly scarred, and Roy was hacked to death. Ansar Bangla-7 claimed responsibility for his murder.